322 R. Brown on the supposed absence of the 
pe on the opposite coasts of Washington Territory and British 
Columbia. In the neighborhood of Esquimault and Victoria, 
the rocks are deeply scored and grooved along the shore, and 
large boulders are scattered irregularly over the surface of the 
country, as already described. The other rocks observed as 
erratics were black cherty conglomerate, similar to that under- 
efined apy a hornblende rock and largely crystalline 
greenstone, hea y and in small masses vesicular obsidian 
and pitchsto 
e f ne wing section is given to show the general character 
* = drift, at Esquimault Harbor. 
sandy and _— ground with broken shells 2 to 6 feet 
Yellowish sandy cla; inte with casts of shells (Cardium and Mya) and a few 
es and boulders --._-- 6 tos ‘ 
Gravel of: sceatohed pebbles resting on rock i eos 
The rocks are grooved and scratched at the junction ; the di- 
rection of the glacial markings is between N.-S. and N.N.W- 
8. In a well sinking at Esquimault Bar Sn (for the 
boundary i aan pg. the lower gravel was reached at 42 feet, 
after going through a sandy blue clay without shells or boul- 
ers. The section in n the cliff between Albert Head and Esqui- 
mault is as follows: 
Blue drift clay with boulders ; junction with rock not seen, _----- 
16 feet 
e sand and gravel, poring upward a“ te ae quartzose gravel, 100-120 “ 
— Quart. Journ. of Lond. Geol. Soc., 1860, 
e prairies of that region, standing on the stoneless grass 
plains in marked contrast to fe surroundings. These boul- 
a . BPMs tll r, Bauermann says, but if he refers to the Northern coal fiel'is 
island, then there can be but little pad code + these beds are as I have given 
isa here and elsewhere, of secondary age. 
